Growing up there was no columnist I admired more than William Safire. I never got a chance to meet him, although I did get to know him, in a way, through writing a profile piece about him years ago for Clay Felker at M Inc. (I must upload it one of these days.) Safire declined to be interviewed. After the piece appeared, however, he sent me this very nice postcard :



At every year's end, Safire would run a column of mutliple-choice-questions on events to come in the new year. (I recently discovered an old set, filled out by New Year's revellers, in my late dad's piano bench.) I am reminded of Safire's annual exercise in crystal-ballery on re-reading a column he wrote about Robert Mueller -- whom he had earlier dubbed "Eric Holder's gift to Justice."

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Imagine Einstein settling on C = mc2. Imagine McDonald's serving up quarter-pounders with cabbage. Imagine filling up the car with the garden hose. Imagine Americans approaching domestic subversion  with the Kremlin-inspired line on "McCarthyism." 

Welcome to our death spiral. 

I am sorry to report that my occasional series defending the late Joseph McCarthy now turns to John Solomon, one of precious few journalists with...

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The extent to which The Death of the Grown-Up and American Betrayal remain lenses through which so many events still may be examined continues to amaze me. Yesterday's radio shows took both books through their paces.

My chat with Frank Gaffney opens with Boo Boo Acosta and, more important, his "parents" at CNN. We also discussed the good old Obama days -- as in, "Remember When Obama Wouldn't Show ID?" (This...

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Nov.16, 2018, is the 85th anniversary of an event that most Americans have never heard of. As I argue in my book, “American Betrayal,” it’s the seminal event in modern U.S. history. On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt extended “normal diplomatic relations” to the communist dictatorship under Joseph Stalin in Moscow.

In exchange for a page of Soviet concessions signed by Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov (who, with Prohibition-era beer on his breath, returned to the Soviet Embassy “all smiles … and said,...

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"Remember When Obama Wouldn't Show ID?" is now available at Amazon. 

From the Introduction:

On November 9, 2018, Michelle Obama began to roll out her memoir, Becoming, one-half of the $65 million “joint deal” she and Barack Obama inked with Crown Books. Notably, the first round of headlines about the book were less about the life of the former First Lady than about her roiling anger at President Trump.

What stokes this anger? 

Of the disputed Constitutional eligibility of her husband to be President of the United States, Michelle...

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If you have voted Red and are watching the clock, here's some non-election food for thought that we return to tomorrow. Nellie Ohr and "McCarthyism," as discussed on The Audrey Russo Show, with, of course, the inimitable Audey Russo.

Listen here. 

Returning from a few days away, I find several emails alerting me to a recent pronouncement by David Horowitz on his supposed rift with Ronald Radosh. 

Supposed...? 

Truth be told, every time I happen to write either of those two names, I stop, halted by misgivings over  wasted time and thought. Why throw any more of either at these two longtime prevaricators now pretending to be at odds?

Pretending...?  

It's just a notion, but I think it has some appeal. If only to avoid thinking about the midterm elections now in progress (Vote GOP!), I'll tease it out for a bit. Maybe there's something there.

Background (there's always background): On August...

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